James Woods is not only an award-winning actor, he is also quite a poker shark, and has lately joined the blogoshere with a poker blog on HollywoodPoker.com. He has written all about his poker adventures on the website, commenting on his own game and poker tournaments he has attended.
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In one personal poker blog, Woods complains about running bad. “I may be one of the few poker players left on earth who actually believes there is no such thing as bad luck,” he writes. “The math may be streaking against you, but there is no such thing as bad luck. Period. If you are running bad, I promise you, without no peradventure of a doubt, it is not a matter of bad luck. It is a matter of poor play and nothing else. And the sooner you figure out the truth in that statement, the sooner you are back on the road to victory.”
He has also posted about playing in poker tournaments like the Bellagio WPT Championship and the World Poker Tour LA Classic. At the Bellagio WPT Championships, Woods showed excitement at joining some of the toughest poker players in the world. “Most of the field is in the Fontano Room,” he notes, “so the overflow get the main poker room and most of those here are not happy about the cacophony of 10-20 limit being announced over the PA. I like the bruit and confusion. As an actor I learned long ago the power of concentration in the midst of bedlam.”
James Wood truly has been an actor for a long time. While studying political science at MIT, he was an active member of the student theatre group “Dramashop,” where he both acted in and directed a number of plays. In 1970, Woods made his Broadway debut in the first US production of Borstal Boy. Since those early theatre days, he has been a busy actor, producer, director, writer, and poker player.
Woods plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games, playing for the American Stroke Association charity. In 2006, he finished 24th out of 692 at the LA Poker Classic for $40,000. Along with supplying a poker blog and playing online, Woods shares an endorsement for the online poker website HollywoodPoker.com.
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